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Originally Posted by FireItUp
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Always link the actual source, not some random tweet claiming to be the source. You will find that no such statistics exist on the CDC's site, because this is a fake tweet.
If you really want to get into this debate, please do. But always quote the original source material to back up your claims, because anything else can be biased/selectively edited by whoever is reposting.
Your attempts to bring discredited former physician Wakefield into the debate is further proof that you need to go to the original source. The disgraced Wakefield was a gastroenterologist (not a psychologist or psychiatrist) who published a small series of cases in which some of his patients developed signs of autism at around one year of age. His study was later proven to have had falsified results, but in addition to that, his conclusions were not even supported by a proper statistical analysis of his faked raw numbers (yes, it was a major miss on the part of the peers who originally reviewed the article prior to it being published). It was subsequently revealed that he had applied for patents for monovalent vaccines to replace the trivalent vaccine that was in use (measles, mumps, rubella) and for a "cure" for autism, and it is likely that he was attempting to discredit the trivalent vaccine solely for financial gain, and also failed to disclose this conflict of interest when he submitted his paper to be published. Every major anti-vax campaign has Wakefield as the primary source of its "evidence" of the purported link between vaccines and autism, and there is really no other published evidence supporting this link (in fact, there may be an inverse relationship between the percent of the population that has had the MMR vaccine and the percent who have been diagnosed with autism).